Call Center Customers: The Waiting is the Hardest Part
The gap between customers’ perception of waiting time and actual waiting time has been clearly conceptualized but rarely measured.
Contact Center
Elfing It Up at Lands’ End
To liven up the holiday order experience for both customers and telephone representatives, Lands
Calculating Contact Center Productivity
Everyone in your contact center must understand how you calculate productivity. Without an agreed upon calculation, you can never truly trust the numbers.
Top 10 Tech Tools for Call Centers
Technology has revolutionized the contact center in recent years, and there
Voice Recognition Technology Hits the Desktop
Voice recognition software has long been used to collect customer information for the customer service agent prior to the live connection of the call. But voice recognition software in use on the agent desktop is now showing promise in its ability to lower costs by reducing call handle times and provide a better service experience for the customer and agent.
Making a Budgetary Case For Your Contact Center, Part Two
Multichannel contact centers must be prepared to perform at a high level, which requires funding. But you need the support and buy-in of senior management to make your case to get the funding.
Is this New Delhi?
Haband is doing it. So are Home Decorators Collection and Creative Irish Gifts. Dell’s still at it
Eye on Offshore Call Center Outsourcing
The worldwide market for customer service outsourcing hit $12.2 billion in 2007, compared with $8.4 billion in 2004, according to Gartner Research.
The main reason it
The Skinny on Call Monitoring
Managers typically monitor their agents’ performance in responding to telephone calls, e-mail, etc. for purposes of quality control and training. Research shows that best-practice contact centers monitor 5 to 10 calls per agent per month.